Digital Music

Question 1

Explain the shift regarding music collection

Answer 1

Used to be a physical collection (CDs, records, vinyls)

Up until 2000s.

Now more digital - MP3, iPod, Alexa, Spotify, YouTube

Question 2

What did Giles et al. (2007) suggested are 3 important aspects of collecting?

Answer 2

Records are sacred objects

Records are facets of the self (your record collection is a part of you and your identity)

Music is a sensory/emotional experience

Question 3

Can we see other people’s music taste nowadays?

Answer 3

Not really - their music is more commonly stored on their devices rather than in their houses

Could see their musical activity on Facebook or Spotify etc.

Question 4

Are there any sacred objects in digital collection of music?

Answer 4

No

Question 5

What 3 types of music videos on YouTube did Likaren & Salovaara (2015) identify?

Answer 5

Authentic (original recording of a record, original band, live footage of performances)

User-appropriated (lyric videos, illustrated, still - sound file was the same but the visuals were different)

Derivative (cover/dance/parody - people making their own version of the video/music)

Question 6

What is a limitation of research on digital media?

Answer 6

Things change so much from one year to the next that research findings can very quickly become outdated

Question 7

What is the most popular YouTube content, according to Likaren & Salovaara (2015)?

Answer 7

Music videos

Question 8

How many videos were live performances?

Answer 8

25%

Question 9

How many videos were user-appropriated?

Answer 9

38%

Question 10

What videos were most viewed?

Answer 10

Authentic videos

Question 11

What videos were most commented on?

Answer 11

Derivative

Question 12

What is Spotify deliberately geared towards?

Answer 12

Allowing people to investigate new styles/artists/genres

Can explore different types of music

Question 13

What is the archival aspect of Spotify?

Answer 13

Can create your own playlists and storage

Can use spotify in the same way that you might have traditionally collected music

Question 14

Who conducted a Norwegian focus group study?

Answer 14

Luders (2019)

Question 15

What are aspects of musical streaming services such as Spotify?

Answer 15

Affordances are explorable and archivable

Question 16

What did Luders (2019) find in a focus group?

Answer 16

People used streaming platforms to explore music and discover things that they did not know about before

Question 17

What did Luders (2019) argue about Spotify?

Answer 17

The way in which people engage with music is more ephemeral than in the past (lasts for a short time) - can just dip in and out of albums

Not as committed to online music

Don’t have to engage with the whole album as if you had bought the record - don’t feel the need to listen to the whole thing several times

More of an album-sampling rather than an album-level appreciation

Question 18

How has the change in the consumption of music affected memories/historical aspect of music?

Answer 18

Records were associated with time periods/what they were doing in the past/contained memories

Don’t find this with digital music - the historical aspect isn’t as important. People are less aware or less sensitive towards the points in time when that music was made.

Changes the meaning of listening to/collecting music.